Flawless victory. Fatality.
On a side note, MK2 is still the most expensive game I ever purchased! I had been playing MK2 in the arcade for some time and was waiting for what seemed like eternity for the Mega Drive release, when a video shop (yes video, they were things we watched before DVDs :) ) managed to get a couple of copies in early and agreed to sell me one for $140. While that was a very steep price at the time, MK2 was worth every penny and then some. The MD version was brilliant.
MK2 did what all great sequels should do, it took what was good and made it even better. To it's further credit, MK2 remains the greatest game in the series (many years and abysmal sequels later), and remains as playable as it ever was! If there was one criticism, it would probably be the punishing difficulty of the single player mode. Granted, once you had the timing down and the opponents figured out, it was beatable. However, there were many who found it overly difficult even in the easy modes.
While the Mega Drive version of MK2 was brilliant, it also warrants mentioning that MK2 remains my favourite arcade game of all time. This is due primarily to the many excellent contests it catered to. Also, because each player had the same base moves, it encouraged players to master several characters. Further, MK2 had a way of sending button mashers back to the SFII machine. Firstly, because precision and timing left a gigantic gap between the skilled and the not-so-skilled. Secondly, because the inclusion of friendships and babalities enabled you to utterly humiliate people (to use these animations, you had to win the final round without using the punch buttons).
Basically, MK2 is an all time classic, and the finest in it's line well ahead of it's time.
Flawless victory. Fatality.